Word: brush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finished painting and went to the men's room to clean my brush and bucket, but was not ready for what I found in that room...
...Reagan proved to have unexpectedly broad coattails, and partly because so many voters were in such a throw-out-the-Administration frame of mind that they did not hesitate to extend their anti-Carter ire to Democratic Congressmen. Lamented House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It was a broad brush they tarred us with...
There were a lot of them once--ringing doorbells in small Iowa towns to peddle themselves like some new kind of Fuller Brush; standing knee-deep in New Hampshire snow banks, smiles frozen in place; shaking the hands of factory workers until their fingers went numb; giving speech after speech after speech until their voices cracked; eating creamed chicken until they could take it no more; talking about momentum, strategy, winning and losing--especially losing...
...healer without an orthodox faith. Though the deaf and the halt are cured at her touch, she is no manic Holy Roller, no snake-shaking spellbinder invoking God's immediate intervention for the sake of a fatter collection plate. She is a sensible Kansas widow, retrieved from a brush with death, who restores health "in the name of love." Love is all she wants to give to the two men in her life: her stern pa (Roberts Blossom), who responds to her proffered caress both as a seduction and a slap, and a young rake (Sam Shepard...
Rush couldn't begin with a more promising subject for film treatment. An enigmatic young Vietnam vet (Steve Railsback) is on the run from the police for some unknown crime. A near brush with death in his desperate escape from arrest brings him into the distorted movie-set world of a flamboyant, god-like director (Peter O'Toole) and his company on location near San Diego. The company's star stunt man has been killed and the arrest must be temporarily concealed; the fugitive needs a refuge until the heat is off. The director has seen that this hard-bitten...